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- Mrs. Watt receives a message from the president of the Zulu Missionary Society, of which she is a member, that she and Mr. Watt are invited to attend an important meeting of the society that afternoon. Dr. Moon, the missionary, just lately returned from his work in the field, is to lecture on "How to Reach the Savage Heart." There are to be other prominent speakers, and Mrs. Watt is in quite a flurry of expectation. But Watt looks gloomy. "O, hang the Zulus!" He exclaims. "John Watt!" from his better half, "You shall attend that meeting this afternoon and don't try to worm out of it." Watt immediately sets his brain working and finally concocts a most plausible excuse. He pleads sick and when the hour arrives for their departure, he is moaning and writhing in utter agony, while his wife departs for the meeting, not a little skeptical as to the genuineness of her husband's suffering. Immediately after she leaves Watt cracks his heels together, jumps into his coat and hat and goes out to hunt up "the boys." An hour later finds four or five of them gathered about the Watt dining table, smoking, drinking and playing poker. They are in the midst of it when the bell rings and Mrs. Watt asks to be admitted. She has missed her train. In a quandary Watt turns to his friends, wondering how to get rid of them. A lucky thought strikes him. He hunts up a number of old frock coats and battered silk hats and presses his friends into service as "physicians." When Mrs. Watt is admitted she finds four doctors around John's bedside, all very apprehensive about poor John's condition. One prescribes cod liver oil and sends Mrs. Watt out to the medicine chest to fetch it. It is then that Mrs. Watt discovers the trick when she finds the poker chips, siphon bottle and the real duds of the "physicians." Immediately she routs out the surprised M.D.'s. and prepares to give John the medicine as prescribed by "Dr. Sawbones." "One pint bottle of cod liver oil every three hours." It is needless to say that John was cured and that he will attend the next society's meeting without a murmur.
- A real, old-fashioned "rube" comedy, which is full of laughs from start to finish. The scenes were taken at a real country fair, and shows the adventures of Hi with the bunco men and how he won the pie-eating contest.
- A clerk in a broker's office is accused of stealing a million dollars' worth of railroad bonds, but they are later found to be worthless, his innocence is proven, and he is given a promotion for his efforts.
- A misguided youth is plunged into a series of ridiculous and absurd situations as a result of his endeavor to lend a helping hand to his fellow-beings, especially when it is least desired. Our hero gets the worst of it, but, nothing daunted, pursues the even tenor of his way. We see him gallantly going to the rescue of a colored woman who is being abused by her husband. The interference not being appreciated, he is compelled to flee from their united wrath. Next our hero sees an immense amount of smoke issuing from behind a fence. Being unable to find a fire alarm box he secures two pails of water, rushes madly back to the scene and throws the water over the fence. Again his efforts are not appreciated, for immediately the very wet and angry gardeners climb over the fence and give him a good drubbing. Seeing what he supposes to be a runaway horse and victoria, he risks life and limb to stop the rig, only to receive from the coachman, who has been reclining in the back seat, a chastisement. Seeing a very small boy vainly attempting to ring a doorbell, which is beyond his reach, he gladly offers to assist the youngster. The buxom lady of the house, who has been much annoyed by the youngster's older brother, rewards our hero for his kindness. After various misadventures, the climax comes as he passes the stage entrance of a theater. He sees the shadow on a window shade of a man and woman in a desperate struggle. Hearing the woman scream, he rushes to the nearest policeman, who breaks into the theater and discovers a rehearsal on. Our hero is then arrested and sent to jail for disturbing the peace.
- Dr. Strong's secretary, Norman Arnold, foils a robber who attempts to steal the doctor's art treasures and wins the hand of his daughter, Helen.
- This scenic reel shows the incalculable magnitude of Canada's timber areas; revealing logging methods on the Nashwaak River near Frederickton, New Brunswick, a thrilling occupation of the river drivers, who must possess accuracy of eye, certainty of step and unflinching courage. You will also see the gigantic paper mills, sawmills and their operation by electricity. The procuring of asbestos is also interestingly revealed, showing how the fibrous stone is dynamited from pits and the intricate process by which asbestos curtains are made.
- Everyone falls under suspicion when a jewelry clerk steals a pearl necklace from his employers.
- Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike." Kendall is old and not thoroughly responsible at times. In fact, his simplicity and childish trust in all strangers has earned him the uncomplimentary title of half-wit. Twice before our story opens he has lost two valuable claims because of his too freely proclaiming his finds with the consequence that his claims have been staked by other prospectors. The story opens showing Kendall and his daughter leaving the cabin for the hills. The girl works with him until close to the noon hour when she lays aside her pick and shovel to return to the cabin and prepare dinner. While she is thus engaged, there is a knock at the door and a young miner, Hal Martin, steps in. Martin has accidentally wounded himself in the arm while cleaning his gun and applies to the girl for help. She assists him to bind the wound and thanking her he leaves, after bashfully asking to be permitted to call again. Kendall, at work in the hills, is about to give up in despair, when he turns up two small nuggets and other fine pay dirt. With a glad cry he springs to his feet and hurries back to the cabin. Showing the specimens to Nell, he tells her he is going down to Canyon City and have them assayed. Nell, however, pleads with him not to do so, having in mind the other two valuable claims which he had unwittingly lost. He finally gives in and during the old man's absence from the room Nell hides the specimens in a coffee pot. Kendall returns and while Nell is busy outside, finds the specimens and skips out of the room. At the town store the old miner shows the specimens to a number of miners and despite the entreaties of the old store-keeper they entice Kendall to tell them the location of the mine. Nell returns to the cabin shortly after her father has left, finds the coffee pot on the floor and the specimens gone. She is about to give up in despair when there is a knock at the door and Hal Martin enters. The frantic girl explains her troubles and pleads with Martin to help her save the claim. At the store the old man has boastfully told of the rich vein and minutely described it to the other miners, who, when satisfied they will have no trouble in finding the location, run out of the store, mount and ride away. Back at the cabin Martin has listened to the story and tells the girl they must race back to the claim and beat the others to it. The girl quickly saddles a horse. Martin mounts his own and the race to stake the claim begins. The scenes alternate between the miners and the girl and Martin. However. Martin and the girl arrive just in time, and while Martin holds the others off with his gun, the girl stakes the claim. The others, realizing they are beaten, turn away, leaving Nell and Hal alone.
- An impersonator is ejected from his boarding house for failure to pay rent, and being of an easy-going spirit, he packs his few belongings, consisting of wigs, beards, clothes, etc., such as he uses to do his impersonations. He starts out to have a little sport, and incidentally collects a few spare nickels in this manner. An automobile owner has just left his machine, to go into a friend's home. The impersonator comes along, takes a look at the man, makes up his mind he will have a machine ride, and quickly makes himself up to look like the owner. He then walks out of the house, jumps into the machine, and the unsuspecting chauffeur takes the orders of the impersonator, thinking he is his employer. When the owner comes out and sees his machine leaving in the distance, he gives chase, and the impersonator, after having his ride, leaves the machine. Next he impersonates a dude, thereby getting the benefit of two sweethearts kissing. His fun continues in this manner, until he sees a notice in the paper that a foreign nobleman is going to be honored at a reception. He impersonates the gentleman, thus getting the honor of the multitude, who think they are showering their plaudits upon a celebrity, when it is only the impersonator. While they are seated at the banquet, a telegram comes from the real nobleman, saying it will be impossible for him to attend, and immediately everyone jumps upon the poor impersonator, tearing off his beard and wig and giving him a quick exit by the boot and shoe route.
- "Two-Bits," the price men used to pay for a haircut, isn't much money in these days with old Mr. H.C.L. at our heels, but one "Two-Bit" piece surely changed the life events of Jimmy Mason. Jimmy couldn't get an orchestra seat to see the wonderful lady in tights so he invested "Two-Bits" and went to the gallery. There he found a seat beside a wonderful girl. He sat to the finish but didn't see the show; her eyes blurred everything commonplace, and then they became acquainted when she accidentally jabbed him with a hatpin. The next night he asked her to go with him to an orchestra box. But Alice wouldn't listen. But she would go to the "Two-Bit" gallery. And they went often, but Jimmy always suffered the fear that Faulkner, his boss, would see him and think him a terribly cheap sport. But Alice told Jimmy not to waste money on seats in the orchestra. And so it went. Finally the blow falls when his employer sees him and Alice exiting from the gallery. Hope is gone when he is called before the boss the next morning and asked how long he had been patronizing the gallery, but all is well and the sun shines again when "the old man" approves and proves it with a promotion. Jimmie dashes to Alice's house and tells her about the promotion and what he thinks of a certain girl. Then Alice tells him that all along she had a definite idea in preferring 'Two-Bit Seats." You are entitled to one guess. You're Right.
- Two feuding families oppose the romance between a young mountaineer and his sweetheart.
- The editor of a well-known magazine informs John Carson that his manuscript lacks the necessary punch. Walter Jordon, a clerk in a broker's office, discovers that his sweetheart's mother has been defrauded, and by the firm he is working for. He pleads with the manager to return the money, but is refused. He appropriates it and dashes madly up the street and into Carson's apartment. He explains the situation to the author. The broker arrives at the apartment; Carson holds him off at the point of a revolver. It is then that the author discovers that it is his own mother who was defrauded. Things are finally straightened out and Carson discovers he has a great deal of material to embody in his story, which the editor later buys.
- A comedy of excellent merit has been made out of this very popular and well fitting expression. How often have you allowed yourself to do something and then vowing to never again repeat the experience? .Such is the case in this subject with our principal character, who, after tolerating the excessive heat all day, thinks he sees an avenue of escape when he reads a circular announcing that you should "Keep Cool by Going to Coney Isle.'' He makes up his mind to go, little imagining he would have been better off had he stayed at home. He hires an auto to take him to the boat landing, but it breaks down and he has to help in an endeavor to pull it out of a hole. He does not succeed in doing this, and in order to catch the boat he has to run, managing to get the boat as it is leaving the pier. The boat is crowded and he is squeezed to a pulp by two very fat women. Finally he arrives at the island, and after that has all kinds of trouble, which continues until he makes up his mind that he has had quite enough of "Cool Coney Isle.'' He starts home, and then finds all boats and cars have gone and he has to hoof it. When he arrives in the city he spies a sandwich man advertising the cool breezes of "Coney Isle." And what he does to that sign is a caution.
- A well-to-do business man leaves his home for his office. After dictating his letters and transacting his business, he leaves his manager in charge, and visits his club. He is a baseball fan of most pronounced type, and a firm believer that the "White Sox" will win the pennant. He has made a wager with a fellow club member that his favorite team would beat the "Tigers," the loser to have his hair clipped and his beard and moustache shaved. This they consider a great sacrifice, as both are inordinately proud of their hirsute adornments. Our friend is informed at his club that he has lost and must pay the wager. He leaves the club in a cab for the barber shop, and after a great comedy scene with barber, emerges hairless. The cab driver does not recognize him, refuses to allow him to enter the cab, and after various ludicrous adventures he reaches home, where he is greeted as an insolent intruder. His wife sets the dog on him, who chases him down the street. After many trials and tribulations, and being ejected continually as an impostor, he returns to the barber shop, and between threatening and beseeching, he induces the barber to apply a magic lotion. The scene shows how the particles leap from the floor and adhere to his smooth face and his bald pate, and so triumphantly he returns home and is welcomed by his wife and children.
- Mr. Buttles is a Machiavellian butler at Everdun Towers, the estate of the Earl of Everdun. He forms a corporation of the servants to work for tips from guests and persuades the impecunious Earl to act as the drawing card at a salary. The Earl gets Huggins, his chauffeur, who is his double, to masquerade as His Lordship while he slips off to Paris. Huggins' real name is Hemmingway, an author and London newspaper man looking for local color. Huggins falls in love with Sallie Flighter, an American heiress and guest at the Towers. Huggins tells Sallie who he really is, but Buttles, fearing the end of his scheme, makes the girl think he is a bit balmy. Huggins is led into a compromising situation through the visit of a chorus girl, one of the sweethearts of the Earl. Buttles extricates him on his promise not to try again to reveal his true identity. Buttles engineers two proposed elopements in such a way that he stops both and gets handsome tips. The Earl is informed of the love affair of his double and Sallie. He returns to stop the match. By skillful maneuvering Buttles persuades the Earl to leave with Gwendolyn, for which Huggins agrees to act out the part of his Lordship to the end of the season, Miss Flighter alone knowing the secret. The syndicate reaps a rich reward.
- When a child dies, an aunt, in whose care it has been left, substitutes a deserted child in its place.
- Young Benton Clune is not a coward at heart. He is a victim of over-zealous mother love which has grown to exert too great an influence over him. When the President's call to arms comes, Clune's regiment of National Guard prepares. Mrs. Clune is terror-stricken. She induces Benton to resign from the unit. His comrades brand him a "slacker," and the girl he loves spurns him. The regiment moves off to war. Lacerated by the taunts which greet him on all sides, Clune's manhood finally asserts itself and he hastens to the front. He finds his regiment in a desperate plight. The enemy, in overwhelming numbers, is threatening to annihilate it. The colonel calls for a volunteer to make a perilous trip for reinforcements. Those who had jeered at Clune held back from what seemed inevitable death. The man they had called "slacker," steps forth. His trip through the enemy lines forms a series of hairbreadth escapes but proves successful in the end. Thus Benton redeems his honor and wins the girl he loves.
- Convict No. 999, lonely in his prison cell, is handed a letter one morning from his mother. The letter states that the enfeebled old lady is ill and without food or money. The convict's heart saddens as he recalls his life of crime and that he is responsible for the poor old mother's want. He prays for the opportunity to redeem himself. Later he calls the guard, who is monotonously patrolling the hall outside and begs an interview with the warden of the penitentiary, a just, honest man, to whom he shows the letter and begs for a ticket of leave that he may visit his mother and make some endeavor to relieve her want. The request is granted, and promising to return when his time has expired. No. 999 shakes the wardens' hand and goes out. Beyond the gray walls of the penitentiary Walt Rooney makes haste to catch the next train for his home in the little western town. He arrives and hurries to his mother's home. The mother embraces him tenderly while Walt turns his head, hiding a tear. "I will find help, mother dear," he finally assures her, "I will find work; we shall have money and you shall have food and a doctor." Walt realizes his mother's grave condition and the necessity of having medical and housekeeping help. Also he knows that he will be unable to work at this dull time of the year, and in desperation he finally resorts to "the old game." It was not prudent nor the best plan, we will admit, but it appeared to him to be the easy way. At the point of a revolver he forces the village storekeeper to hand over all his money, and after writing a promise to repay the storekeeper at some future date, Walt rushes out, counting the bills, and hurries for a doctor. A few days later, just as the warden has given up all hope of the return of No. 999, he suddenly steps in. Two years go by and No. 999 is released, his time having expired. Walt now calls upon his mother and tells her of his plans for the future. He will turn prospector, he says, and without a doubt they will soon be rich. In truth Walt makes a rich strike on his claim, and a very lucrative vein of gold is revealed. For a vast sum Walt sells his mine, and he and his mother move back to the village. They arrive to find a large crowd gathered in front of the village grocer's. The old man has been unable to meet the mortgage and a sheriff's sale is in progress. Walt is interested and sees an opportunity to repay the old man, whom he had robbed when life had been cruel with him. Walt bids with the rest until he and the avaricious landlord are competing for the ownership of the store. "One thousand five hundred dollars from the gentleman." The auctioneer calls. "Two thousand," from Walt. "Two thousand is offered by this gentleman, the auctioneer again drawls, "Who will make it three?" There is no answer and as Walt's rival walks away leering, the auctioneer sings again, "Two thousand I have. Two thousand once, two thousand twice, two thousand three times, and sold to Mr. Rooney." A few minutes later Walt with the bill of sale in his hand, touches the sorrowful old gentleman on the shoulder. The latter looks up. "I reckon you'll want to look the prize over," he says, rising slowly. For an answer Walt thrusts the bill of sale into the old man's hands. "No, no," he says, "I want to repay you for the kindness you showed me once in -" He finishes by producing half of the note he had forced upon the grocer two years before. The old man recognizes it, then slowly stretches out his hand. Their eyes meet and they understand.
- Old daddy drives into town with his bevy of four beautiful daughters. The town boys gather around and daddy perforce must use his driving whip to drive the girls' sweethearts away from them. They go into the village store and while daddy is buying vinegar, the four girls and their sweethearts spoon behind flour barrels and in nooks about the store. The merry widow comes to town and daddy falls in love with her while he drives her home. The girls and boys make the most of their opportunities and run away to get married. Arrived at the office of the justice of the peace, they fulfill their intentions and daddy wanders in to buy a marriage license. But the fickle widow denies him and takes the justice of the peace himself. The justice faints, however, and the Merry Widow remains a widow.
- Silas Hemlock, a typical rube with an umbrella and carpet bag, arrives in the city on pleasure and business. Searching for lodgings be comes across a neat-looking rooming house with a large sign reading: "Particularly Quiet and Restful. Boarders Taken In." Unaware that already the house is crowded to overflowing with persons seeking quiet and rest, Silas rings the bell and is admitted. The landlady looks him over and escorts him down the hall to room 13. Silas, being superstitious, objects to the hoodoo 13, but the landlady fixes things by merely pressing a button and lo! the number is changed to 23. The lady enters to make the room fit for the newcomer, while Silas waits outside to stroke up an acquaintance with J. Hamilton Shocksper, a tragedian, who is seeking rest and quiet at the establishment to study his part in the new production of "Who Stole Dinkelspiel's Sausage." Others of the boarders file past, a vaudeville team, a gay soubrette, and a prize fighter who takes offense at Silas's attentions to the soubrette, but who gets knocked out by a short stiff jab from the athletic Silas. Everything is ready for Silas when he enters his room, and he prepares immediately to go to bed. Things then begin to get lively. Rats scoot about his bed and the various articles of furniture in the room begin performing uncannily. The vaudeville team in the room above dance the plastering from the ceiling and the soubrette has a nightmare and comes prancing into his room, singing her latest comedy "hit." The tragedian, dragging a clumsy dummy and brandishing a ferocious saber, stalks into the room, runs the dummy through and wades exultantly out of the room, muttering 16th century slang. This is too much for the dummy, who comes to life and flies out of the room. Silas can stand it no more. A storm has come up, the lightning flashes and the rain splatters in at the open window. He endeavors to close the curtains, but as fast as he pulls them to they mysteriously fly back again. The furniture starts a ghostly dance, the bed waltzes out into the hallway, while the table runs away with the washstand. Soaked with the rain, Silas looks despairingly about him. He snatches his umbrella, opens it and waits shiveringly for Gabriel's trumpet, for he is convinced that the days of the world are numbered. More plaster falls and the grand climax comes when out of the storm are blown a great quantity of cats and dogs. The frightened Silas, whose courage has wholly oozed out of him, makes a dart for the door and out of the dreadful house. Back to the farm for him! No more gay city life for this rural body of simple ways and trustful mien!
- Patricia Watkins and her father are proprietors of the Lariat Saloon and dance hall but because of his small size and his tendency to keep in a state of perpetual drunkenness the old man has little to do with the business. Patricia as a barmaid meets all the riffraff of humanity drifting across the plains to the west and the Lariat Saloon is noted far and wide, not so much for the quality of its poisons as for the pretty maid who always offers a smile with the drink. On the evening our story opens, Patricia receives from the upstage driver a box of bullion with instructions to guard it carefully until the next day, when it will be picked up by the mountain stage. As the coach hauls up at the front of the saloon a man on horseback watches from behind a boulder, and, satisfied the box is left in care of the Watkins', wheels around and rides down the trail. Next we see him join a confederate and after a short consultation both ride to the Lariat and enter. It is perfectly evident that the second man, apparently the master of the two, is greatly impressed by the girl's beauty, and after a few drinks he strikes up an acquaintance with the girl. Sheriff Dixon, who is also in love with Patricia, enters, looks the stranger over, but refuses to shake hands with him when Patricia offers to introduce her new friend. Later, when the girl leaves the saloon for the cabin she turns Dixon down cold and to further arouse his jealousy accepts the stranger's invitation to accompany her home. An hour later Sheriff Dixon receives a note in which it is stated that Dick Martin, a highwayman, is in his vicinity and a description of Martin corresponds with that of Patricia Watkins' new friend. The Sheriff loses no time in his effort to capture his rival. Riding first to the Lariat he learns that Martin is still at the Watkins' cabin, but arrives there too late as Patricia has hidden the bad man and informs the Sheriff and his posse that he left an hour before. The Sheriff shows Patricia a photograph of Martin and tells her that he is wanted and will swing if he is caught. However, the girl does not give him up but when the Sheriff leaves she sends Martin away refusing to shake hands with him in parting. Not long after, Martin, who has tried to make his escape, is shot and wounded by the Sheriff, but succeeds in eluding him while he makes his way on foot to Patricia's cabin. After hearing his story the girl takes pity on him and hides him in a loft just as the Sheriff again enters. Dixon makes love to Patricia and endeavors to take her in his arms. A drop of blood from the wounded man above, splatters on the Sheriff's hand and in a rage he pulls down the ladder and orders Martin to come down.
- A penniless young man saves a rich woman's life by donating a blood transfusion, and the two eventually fall in love.
- "Henry" the Essanay comedy hero, is again brought into the limelight. We may suspect that either business or domestic troubles has caused poor Henry to take a drink, but he certainly has some "package" when he comes into view at the first of the film. We may label this, "Package No. 1." Henry wanders by an auction sale and at the opportune moment when the auctioneer is just starting bidding on a handsome umbrella vase Henry remembers his wife has wanted just some sort of a receptacle as this, and that it would be profitable to carry home some sort of a peace offering, he outbids all bidders, bundles the awkward and heavy object into his arms and starts on his way home. While en route home, Henry adds a few more drinks to "Package No. 1," leaving the vase outside each time. Pedestrians and passersby, mistaking it for a receptacle for city trash, dump all sorts of odds and ends into it. Two boys with dodgers get rid of a hard day's work by dumping the dodgers into the vase. Two other mischievous boys add to the weight by consigning a hod of bricks into it. A henpecked chap, whose sole duty is to care for "Fluff Fluff," a mangy poodle, watches his chance, and when his wife is not looking, drops the canine into the vase and starts the hue and cry that "Fluff Fluff" has run away. Other pedestrians make use of the vase in similar and varied ways, and last of all, a sneak-thief, hotly pursued by a copper slips a heavy pocket-book into the vase so as not to be caught with the "goods." Henry, after more harrowing experiences, arrives home and staggers into the house. But, alas, he stumbles over a footstool, just as he is about to present his purchase to his wife, and smashes the vase into a thousand pieces. Mrs. Henry upbraids her husband for his awkwardness and curiously brings out the odds and ends which Henry unknowingly brought home with him. Last of all she finds the pocket-book which is found to contain the price of fifty vases. Henry willingly accepts the incident as a direct gift of Providence and permits his wife to kiss and hug him to her very heart's content.
- Janet, daughter of a proud, penniless old southern colonel, employed in a fashionable millinery shop, delivers a hat one evening and is escorted home by the rich customer's son, Edward, who refuses to court Velda Browning. After the colonel's death, Janet and Edward elope. Edward is forbidden to return to his home. Several years later, very ill, he is taken back by his mother, on condition that Janet relinquish her baby and Edward. Edward's strength does not return, pining for Janet. Remorseful, the mother brings the girl back to her home, and Edward's normal mental state returns when he sees Janet's wonderful smile spreading over her face as she clasps the baby to her heart.
- Harry McAllison, a degenerate young man, is in love with Dorothy Van Hagen, a very close friend of his sister, Gladys. As yet he has never made a proposal but has worshiped her secretly from afar. The day our story opens, however, when he finds Dorothy and he alone in the latter's library, he weakly confesses his love and endeavors to take her in his arms. She reproaches him and tells him she does not love him. Then Gladys enters, she bows her adieu, and goes out. The following evening Harry and his sister attend a party at the Van Hagen's. During the evening Harry haunts the presence of Dorothy, much to her dislike and nettles him in refusing to give him a dance and then straightway offering her arm to Algernon Trevost, her sweetheart. McAllison watches them with envious eyes, an intense feeling of hatred burning in his heart. A moment later Trevost and Dorothy enter, seek a secluded spot in the conservatory but within view of McAllison and exchange kisses and caresses. A scene follows in which Dorothy orders young McAllison from the house. The next day McAllison, still smarting under Dorothy's reproach racks his brain for some method of revenge. Suddenly a plan frames itself in his thought. He knows of a certain gambling resort, notorious for its wickedness and vice, to which he plans, by a clever ruse, to lure Dorothy, at the same time, dispatching an anonymous note to Trevost, explaining that if this latter desires to know the real character of the woman he loves to visit No. 996 Rennert Street at nine o'clock that evening. The other note to Dorothy dispatched shortly before the appointed time asks that she call at 996 Rennert Street, where Gladys McAllison is suddenly taken ill. The note is signed, Harry McAllison. This plan carefully prearranged and timed to the minute, works out smoothly. Dorothy unsuspectingly enters the trap and is denounced by Trevost who believes her to be an habitué of the place. In her innocence and misunderstanding she stumbles bewilderingly about the room and is soon surrounded by a crowd of flashy women. Trevost, unable to stand it longer, runs from the place, and McAllison, who from a quiet corner has watched it all, runs forward and catches Dorothy in his arms. She has fainted. He carried her out and places her tenderly in a cab giving the driver the address. The next day a note from Mrs. Van Hagen, urging Gladys to call on Dorothy immediately, is received by the latter. At the Van Hagen's Gladys sees Dorothy, who has suffered a severe nervous shock from the ordeal and who is confined to her bed. Dorothy is too ill to explain and Gladys in departing has received no hint that her brother was implicated in the hateful conspiracy. A few days later, Harry, who has suffered an excruciating remorse, makes a confession to his sister, explaining that it was her who caused the separation of Dorothy and her lover. He wants her to intercede for him with Dorothy and to win her forgiveness. Gladys is horror-stricken and finds explanation for the note received by her early in the day from Mrs. Van Hagen. It reads: "My dearest Gladys: Dorothy is still too weak to talk of the sad events of a week ago, but Mr. Trevost is now convinced Dorothy was the victim of some horrible plot. He will call upon you in hopes you can help solve the mystery. Mrs. Anna Van Hagen." A moment later Trevost is ushered in. After a few words Harry comes on and confesses to Trevost that it was he who invented the scheme of Dorothy's downfall. The outraged lover is hardly able to resist the temptation to choke the degenerate perpetrator of the monstrous outrage. Gladys pleads with him and he bows to her and goes out. A few moments later Harry and Gladys drive to the Van Hagen residence and are ushered into the presence of Dorothy. Dorothy forgives him and he and Gladys depart. Young Trevost then enters and taking his sweetheart in his arms tenderly presses a kiss to her lips. The reconciliation has been established.
- A dissipated young man is renouced by the puritanical old man he supposed to be his uncle because of his bad habits; when the old man is found murdered and his safe robbed, the profligate is accused and tried, but succeeds in solving the mystery and reforms.
- In this comedy, which is the best of the recent series, Don Barclay is featured, and there are a number of laughable situations in a restaurant, particularly a dance with a fat woman, and a good scene dealing with the sugar scarcity. It is of the knock-about type, and should please the average audience.
- Vivian breaks her engagement to Frank when she hears he has lost all his money. Frank is forced to look for a job and has a mighty hard time of it. He meets his iceman, Bill, who tells him he can get a job with him. At a picnic Frank meets Bill's sister, Betty, with whom he falls in love, and eventually marries, when by a turn of the market his wealth is restored to him. When Vivian and her mother learn of Frank's good fortune they call on him, but great is their consternation and disappointment when Frank introduces them to his bride.
- Peter Fuss and Jack Henry, being invited to sit in a game of poker, write fake telegrams to their wives telling them they have been called out of the city. The undertaker is one of the members of the party and loses all his money. In the midst of the game the constable knocks at the door. All except Fuss and Henry leap out of the window. They climb up a chimney and flee to the undertaker's house, where, exhausted, they drop asleep in his bed. In the meantime the two wives have heard their husbands were killed in a wreck. They go to the undertaker's shop and he shows them their sleeping husbands all begrimed from their trip through the chimney. The wives pay the undertaker to care for the bodies. When the husbands return home they find crepe on their doors. They vow never to play again.
- One day a keen business man, who thought nobody could show him, was sitting at his desk when a classy grass widow floated in and stood smiling at him. Had it been a man book agent, the K.B.M. would have shouted "Sick 'em," and reached for a paper weight, but when the agent isn't so poor to look at, well, he only yammered when he tried to tell her he couldn't be interested. She kept to her little song and smiled and sat a little closer. He got so dizzy he had to lock his legs under the chair to keep from turning turtle. She pushed her jeweled pen into his mitt and showed him where to sign. When the seven pound copy of "Happy Hours With Poets" was delivered, and he paid out six silver pieces, he hated himself worse than ever. K.B.M. carried the book home to his wife. She flagged him and said all her women acquaintances had received these same books, that a crowd of married men must have been given a club rate. He refused to talk about it anymore. Meanwhile the grass widow is living at the finest hotel on Michigan Boulevard. Moral: Those who are entitled to it, get it sooner or later.
- Gladys Norton, a sweet little country girl, receives a letter from her sweetheart, saying that after four years of study in the city, he is coming back. Gladys is overjoyed. Theresa, Gladys' cousin, desiring to spend a few quiet weeks in the country, pays the Nortons a surprise visit and arrives on the same train with Irwin. The city cousin captivates Irwin with her beautiful clothes and manners. Poor little Gladys sobs her heart out seeing the two together continuously. Irwin, secure in his belief that he has won Theresa, is rudely awakened when her sweetheart from the city calls to take her home. Realizing that he did not pass the testing fire, Irwin decides to leave, but Gladys turns his path of thorns into a bed of roses and a happy ending is the consequence.
- This picture portrays the various manners in which a young fellow (who evidently was born with a decidedly lazy streak in his make-up) secures work, gets tired and is fired without unnecessary delay. He is employed to help move some furniture, and the listless manner in which he handles it soon secures his discharge. Then in rapid succession we find him a waiter, a bartender, etc., from all of which positions his lack of energy soon leads to dismissal. Finally he becomes a policeman, which job he holds without making any particular effort. In fact, this seems to be the only position he is able to hold.
- A Messenger Kid stopped to Gaze at a picture of Jess Willard in a window and began to Weep bitterly. A soft-hearted Commuter halted. "Why do you weep?" he asked. "Aw, gee, what chance have I to ever be like him," came back the Tadpole. "What a perverted Ambition. Why don't you strive to be like me? I am a candidate for Director of our new four-hole golf club and I play whist on the train with a man who once lived in the same house with Billy Sunday." So the boy became a caddy and listened to the Poor Nuts who babbled about Tough Lies and Dubbing Approaches and reflected that they were much inferior to his own Dad, who had to Shove Lumber all day while these Superficial Johnnies had money to toss to the Birds. When the Kid reached the age of Sagacity he became a baseball fan. His wife never knew what the fan was talking about but she helped him into the house and mixed his Throat Gargle for him. Then the Fan came to his Ninth inning. She pleaded for one final message. His lips moved. She leaned forward. Fan wanted to know if there was anything in the Morning Papers about the condition of Heine Zimmerman's Knee Cap. Moral: There is a Specific Bacillus for every Classified disease.
- One of the many diversions of the Finger-Bowl Set was amateur theatricals. Every season the club gave a show at which the net proceeds, sometimes 18 bucks, went to charity. "Romeo and Juliet" was the coming dramatic treat. For the part of Juliet there were two candidates, Mrs. Skilligan and Mrs. Winkle. The club elected Mrs. Winkle by a majority of one and some were mean enough to say she voted for herself. Mrs. Skilligan and her dinner party came in late and upset chairs in a genteel manner. Mrs. Winkle lasted, but she was too pink for words. She took 8 curtain calls, or two more than Melba's record. Next thing anyone knew there were no Skilligans at the Winkle affairs and no Winkles at the Skilligan functions. They vied with each other in expensive entertainment. Then two men met in bankruptcy court. "It's a dead heat," said Skilligan to Winkle. Moral: The men are always the first to quit.
- An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.
- Jack Raymond, our hero, (if a bachelor may be called a hero), is past forty-five and not married. He has three rooms, bath and a man servant. Just now he is seated at his table in the library in his comfortable smoking jacket and well-worn slippers, smoking his pipe, while old Bartlett, a model man servant, busies himself about the room. He is exceedingly satisfied with life. As he dreams over his books and pipe the doorbell rings and a messenger boy is ushered in. The telegram, addressed to Raymond, is signed by an old college chum, and reads: "New York, November 3, 1909. Mr. Jack Raymond, Boston. Mass. Am called to Europe on business and am sending my little baby girl, Bessie, for you to take care of during my absence. Fred." Raymond groans, rises and storms about the room, begging his faithful and quick-witted Bartlett to find some way out of the predicament. Sending a baby to him! How in the world will he take care of a baby; he doesn't know the first thing about them! But the ever genial Bartlett's face lightens. "A baby, coming here?" he says. "Why, what a novelty. Really, sir, I think that will be most agreeable." Raymond is finally won over and instructs Bartlett to get the cradle from the garret and gives him $5 to buy the little one some playthings. Everything is made ready for the baby and Bartlett and Raymond wait in expectant suspense. The "baby" arrives, carrying a suitcase, a winsome little lass of seventeen. Bartlett is happily embarrassed, while Raymond laughingly carries out the toys and cradle. The "baby," as Bartlett prophesied, turned out to be most agreeable. Her ever-busy hands soon revolutionize things about the house. Under girlish fingers the plainness of the rooms vanishes. The rooms become a lady's boudoir with bow-ribbons, dainty doilies and various nick-nacks. Numerous missing buttons on Uncle Jack's coats and shirts mysteriously, find their places again, while the socks with holes in them, which he had laid aside, go back to his wardrobe neatly mended. The touch effeminate even invades the crusty old bachelor's heart. He finds himself spending more time in making himself attractive. He lays aside the old smoking jacket for a smart new one, and eschews the more odoriferous pipe for the sweeter smelling Havana cigars. One morning Bachelor Jack stands at his window, breathing in the fresh, perfume laden air, when Bessie, blithe and sweet as the morning, steps in from the garden with a rose, which she pins in his coat. He looks into her eyes and tears dim his own. Then he takes the precious rose off and puts it tenderly away in his pocket next his heart. He is half persuaded to tell her of his love for her, but the touch of gray on his forehead reminds him that the winter of his life is too near. One fine morning Harry Raymond, Jack's nephew, returns from college to spend his summer vacation with his uncle. The two young people soon become fast friends, all unconscious of the love that is springing up between them. The summer days go by and as the time for school again approaches Harry confesses his love. The girl happily goes to his arms and tells him her love for him. Uncle Jack wanders out into the garden and finding them together in each other's arms, slips quietly back to the house, unselfishly content to let his own little dream fade away. In due time Harry brings his sweetheart to Uncle Jack, who gives them his blessing, besides a substantial check to "feather the nest." A short time later they leave and Jack returns to his pipe, his slippers, his books and his good man, Bartlett. Yet, on many a winter night, left alone in his library, he brings from a drawer in the table a faded rose, then he drops back in his chair dreaming.
- The story starts with an accident in the kitchen of Dr. Nokure's home, when a water pipe bursts. Bridget discovers the leak and hurries off to tell her mistress about it. After further examination on the part of this latter and the cook Mrs. Nokure does the next best thing in telephoning to the plumber, advising him to rush somebody up to fix the pipe immediately. Mr. Plummer calls out his force of able men and tells them to hurry up to the doctor's house. "Just take your time about it, boys, we need the money." With significant nods the little army of six plumbers hurry out to the scene of action. When they arrive they investigate the leak, merely a small crack above the hydrant, and go into consultation as to how it ran best be fixed. During this important prelude to the actual work "Shorty" is rushed out to a nearby saloon for beer. Finally all agree it will be necessary to begin somewhere in the parlor and there they go and begin rummaging lazily about the room, tearing up the carpets and otherwise destroying order in the house. Mrs. Nokure finally finds them loafing on the job and sends them back to the kitchen. Then she calls up her husband and informs him about what the plumbers are not doing. In the kitchen Mr. Plummer's force contrives to do everything but mend the leak in the pipe, but when Dr. Nokure comes on the scene every plumber's son of them is working with all his stored up energy. The doctor, however, is finally soused with a spray from the leak and beats a hurried retreat. However, there is an end to everything and after four or five hours of pottering around and killing time, the leak is mended and the robbers make their departure to report to their chief. The next day Doctor Nokure is enraged when he scans the figures of the plumber's bill. The whole amounts to some $411.44. The doctor takes his troubles to the plumber but this individual argues that the figures are correct. A week later Mr. Plummer limps into his office and drops weakly into a chair. He is suffering with all sorts of pains and when his wife enters a few minutes later she immediately advises him to go see a doctor. "Ah," thinks he, "here's a chance to get some money on that bill, or at least get my money's worth!" He is helped into the doctor's office by his wife and a clerk and the doctor hurriedly makes an examination. During the course of the examination the doctor is planning a brilliant stroke for revenge and, calling his assistant aside, he tells him to hurry out and bring in a force of some six or seven medical students. Then Mr. Plummer is forced into the operating chair, bound and gagged and strapped securely, while the doctor and his assistants get busy. Before the job is through Mr. Plummer has received all sorts of treatment, good and bad, from the pulling of a tooth to a shoe shine. He leaves the place swathed in bandages and is advised not to become excited at anything on the penalty of death. A week later Dr. Nokure delivers his bill for the sum of $411.44 with a carefully itemized list, which is exceedingly humorous in itself. He is about to storm out of the office, but remembers he must not get excited, so he goes peaceably and enters the doctor's office to make inquiry about the bill. The two men argue, then exchange bills. The accounts balance. Seeing the humor of the situation, both burst into hearty laughter.
- A man, believed dead, returns to blackmail his wife, who has since remarried.
- Thomas Hunter, an aged inventor, who has been laboring many years on an automatic elevator for the quick and laborsaving manipulation of coal, is seen in his workshop just putting the finishing touches to his model. To his great delight he finds that the invention is a success and that at last he has realized his life's ambition. Smiling Fortune has come to him at last. Hunter is enthusiastic about an early disposition of his patent and calls upon H.B. Clifford & Co., promoters of inventions. Clifford is a scoundrel, one of the many wily vampires who prey on the brains and labor of the absorbed man of genius. Hunter is not informed on the technicalities of copyright and patent protection, and after the shrewd eye of the promoter has mentally noted the great possibilities of Hunter's invention, he accepts a cheek from Clifford for "$10,000 on account" and is advised to leave the model with the promoter, who will endeavor to give it more careful consideration. Some few days later Hunter receives a letter from Clifford stating that while the model has no great value as an invention, he will endeavor to place it. An hour later two or three wealthy capitalists call to inspect the model and write Clifford a big check for the invention. The days go by and Hunter receives no further word from the promoter. His frequent calls at the promoter's office always receive the same answer: "Mr. Clifford is not in." In the meantime, Nell Winfield, Clifford's stenographer, has learned of her employer's stealing the elevator model. Clifford has made love to the girl and has promised to marry her, but his sudden chance of fortune in the earnings of the elevator model has caused him to change his mind regarding his matrimonial inclinations toward Miss Winfield. This offers her the incentive of wreaking her revenge upon Clifford by informing Hunter, the inventor, that he has been mercilessly cheated by the promoter. In a rage, the old inventor again goes to Clifford's office. But he is bodily ejected and threatened with arrest if he again enters the office. Hunter patiently waits and later follows Clifford into a café, where the latter is entertaining a number of lady friends. Hunter slips quietly upon Clifford and seizing him by the throat throws him to the floor. In the melee the table is upset and the diners thrown into a panic. The police are called and Hunter is arrested. He is taken to the police station, where he is formally accused of attempted murder by Clifford and Clifford's companion, but Miss Winfield's new fiancé, who, with his sweetheart, has heard of Hunter's arrest, calls at the station and gives bond for the release of the old man. Then Miss Winfield turns to Clifford and accuses him before the desk sergeant of having robbed the old gentleman of his invention. The case is settled in court a few weeks later. Evidence is given and Clifford is clearly defeated. There is a pathetic scene of the old man and his aged wife on the witness stand. But Nell Winfield's story has won the case for them and the model and the accrued sums, wrongfully taken by Clifford, are restored to the old inventor.
- Henry (our old friend again) is the chief clerk in a big real estate and insurance office. He is a dapper little fellow with great pride in his personal appearance, and Henry's Clothes, his hat, his gloves and cane are both the pride and fun of the rest of the office boys. But, to go on with the story. Henry resolves to buy another hat, "something really swell, yon know." So he hies him to the hatter and looks over the hatter's supply. Various styles and shapes and sizes, soft crushers and dinky dicers, are laid out for his inspection until "the" hat, a shiny silk opera affair, the very latest Parisian creation, is placed in his hands. Henry surveys himself in the glass approvingly. "Ah, my dear hatter," he comments, "this is some hat. I'll take. Send it to my office." The hatter's boy, an ambitious youth, arrives at the office ahead of him and deposits the hat on Henry's desk. After the boy leaves Henry's pals gather around, remove the box lid and peer curiously in at the hat. All agree that the hat is a "pippin" and, always mindful of some deviltry or other, they decide to have some sport with their immaculate chief. One of them substitutes an old battered "dicer" for the new hat and when Henry arrives all immediately ask him to let them see his new hat. "Ah, boys," he says, "allow me to show you, really, the swellest thing in town!" He opens the hat box smiling happily and lifts the battered skypiece from its receptacle. With mingled surprise and rage he looks at the hat gingerly while the boys look wonderingly on. Still raging, Henry turns to the 'phone and, as mad as the proverbial hatter, denounces the merchant as a cheat and a liar. While he is hurling his invectives into the surprised ears of the hatter the boys remove the old hat and replace the new one and when Henry turns from the 'phone they thrust the box into his hands and advise that he annihilate the hatter who could play such a witless and malicious joke. Henry rushes back to the hatter and hurls the box in his face. The merchant opens the hat box and there is another surprise, of course! For, behold the bright shiny tile which he originally purchased! The hatter puts him out and the conclusion, a crushing one, comes when the hat is trampled under the feet of a crowd pursuing a street thief!
- An honest Italian attending to his "peanut stand is bothered by a bully, who insists on filling his pockets from the Italian's ware. Of course, the Italian resents this; a fight ensues, in which the bully is knocked down, and in falling strikes his head against the pavement, which kills him. The Italian is arrested and torn from his wife and children, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. The poor wife seeks a pardon by going to the Governor, who absolutely refuses any aid whatever, believing the Italian guilty of willful murder. The home-coming of the mother to her children follows, and the poor woman is so overcome with grief that the children themselves are stirred to action. They leave home and start to make a final attempt to save the life of their father. They go to the Governor and beg him to give them back their dad. At last the Governor's human nature is touched and he hands a pardon to the two tots. Of course they lose no time in delivering it, and reach the jail just as the father is being led out to meet his fate. The pardon is delivered at the eleventh hour, the father released, and a happy reunion follows.
- David Warren and his sweetheart, Stella Graham, are country lovers. As tokens of their engagement they exchange a ring and a necklace, the latter with a locket. At the county fair the next day Warren, who with Stella is seeing the sights, is persuaded to make a bet in a crooked gambling game. Warren, of course, loses and is finally persuaded to make another bet on the necklace given him by Stella. No sooner is the necklace out of his hands than the confidence man and his pal turn and run, evading a constable, who runs on the scene at this time. Warren is arrested for gambling and is dragged by his sweetheart and her family, but is given no opportunity for an explanation. Later, disgraced in the eyes of his sweetheart, he runs away to the city. Some time later Jake Sharpe, the confidence man, who has been the cause of Warren's downfall, tries a new game, selecting farmer Graham for his victim. Jake falls in love with Stella and refuses to cheat her father. Later, Stella sees the necklace she gave to Warren, and Jake is forced to confess where he got it. Jake then gives up all claim to the girl and returning to the city hunts out Warren and sends him back to his country sweetheart.
- Mrs. Dixon had an ungovernable temper which finally brought about a separation between her and her husband. She moved to other parts, taking her child with her. In the years that passed, he longed for the companionship of his wife and finally seeks pleasure in the company of one of the factory girls. Grace, the girl he admires, had taken a room with a widow and one evening she asked permission to bring her gentleman friend. The widow gladly consents and Grace presents, to her astonishment, the widow's husband. Grace secretly returns the ring and makes the wife believe she knew all, had rented the room purposely to bring the two together. But she had lied; she had sacrificed all for the man she loved.
- Our hero and his wife have just experienced one of those demoralizing and harrowing experiences of a wedding anniversary party, when people congratulate you on having traveled so far into the state of matrimony without having walked into the abyss of divorce, and a lot of other silly rot. It is Henry and wife's tin wedding, and the guests have left them everything from a tin kitchen spoon to a clothes holler. Henry wants to get rid of the stuff, his wife objects. Henry, the obstinate, makes secret plans and goes out to find an accomplice. He approaches a tramp in the park and offers him $25 if he will steal into his house at night and remove the objectionable furniture. The tramp agrees, and Henry presses his latch key into the tramp's hand, agreeing to pay over the money immediately the staff is out of the house. In the middle of the night Henry hears someone in the dining room and goes down to investigate. Sure enough, his tramp, as he thinks, is on hand. Henry points out the bundle of tinware, presses the money into the surprised burglar's hand and tells him to beat it. The burglar goes out with the tinware and Henry goes back to bed. An hour later he is aroused from his pleasant dreams by the creaking of the front door. He goes downstairs and finds a supposed burglar bundling up the silverware and without investigating further, thrusts the intruder into a closet and calls the police. When they arrive the tramp is dragged out, and Henry discovers his mistake. He has sent a real burglar off with the tinware and has arrested his tramp and accomplice. He is forced to tip the policeman substantially before they will let the tramp go and also makes good with the tramp. This practically cleans him out, but the real climax comes when, the next morning, an expressman drives up and delivers the basket of tinware with this brief note from the burglar: "I don't want dis junk, what do you tink I am? Pay de expressman." "The charges are five dollars," remarks the expressman. The bewildered Henry pays this last debt and turns the tinware over to his wife, muttering exasperatedly, "Never again."
- Once there was a Steady who over-played his Stand-in and came within an Ace of losing his Ticket. One Evening he took a Friend with him to inspect the One Best Bet. The Friend, a clever two-handed boy, had practiced a few folds of his own. He declared himself in on the Close-up and made it a Three-some. Neither was a Quitter. Wisenstein played a deep system. He painted Buttinsky in bright colors and told the girl that lot of Women were spreading their nets for dear old Buttinsky. When the lady urged Buttinsky to demonstrate his Accomplishments he sang in a tenor that straightened the Princess out and had her biting at the Doilies. He helped matters a lot by advising the Princess to have no Dealings with a man who Drank, meaning Wisenstein. She became indignant because he roasted his friend who had always spoken so Lovely of him, and immediately classed Buttinsky as a false alarm. Moral: Beware of the Friend who tells how Good you are.
- A mysterious stranger gives a man on the verge of suicide new hope.
- Years after a being lost in a shipwreck, the Commodore's long lost daughter is found living on an island, and identified by a unique tattoo. Romance and reunion ensue.
- John Smith, calling on his sweetheart one night, leaves his pocketbook on the library table. The next morning the girl tells the maid to call up Mr. Smith and tell him that she has the pocketbook, and for him to call for it. The maid looks up the number in the telephone directory, and finding a whole lot of John Smiths, calls several of them before her mistress finds out what she is doing. When the calls are received by wives of the wrong John Smiths, there is a general stampede to the house of the hussy, but things are soon explained when the right John Smith appears.